Patents by Inventor Guenther Wolf
Guenther Wolf has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10350953Abstract: A vehicle includes a support structure and a suspension for an oscillatingly supported, rigid axle body. The suspension has a suspension device which is located between the axle body and the support structure and acts in a height direction of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a plurality of coupling sites and a transverse link extending in a transverse direction of the vehicle. The transverse link is coupled to the support structure via a first link area and via a second link area and a pendulum support to the axle body. The transverse link includes a third link area which, with reference to the pendulum support in the transverse direction of the vehicle, is located opposite the first link area and is flexibly connected with a coupling site of the suspension device.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Guenther Wolf, Christian Von Holst, Michael Kremb, Tobias Hegler, Norman Roessel
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Publication number: 20180319234Abstract: A spring strut for a vehicle suspension system includes a spring cylinder defining a cylinder chamber and a spring piston longitudinally displaceable in the spring cylinder. The spring piston subdivides the cylinder chamber into a first and a second outer working chamber. The spring cylinder includes an inner plunger which subdivides a piston chamber formed by the spring piston into a first and a second inner working chamber. The first inner working chamber is simultaneously formed by subdividing the cylinder chamber by means of the spring piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: MATHIAS L. KLITTICH, GUENTHER WOLF, CHRISTIAN VON HOLST, KLAUS HAHN
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Patent number: 10065473Abstract: A control device of a vehicle suspension has a suspension device mounted between a supporting vehicle structure and a vehicle part that is movably mounted. The control device includes a blocking device for blocking a compression or rebound motion occurring at the suspension device in correspondence with a blocking command transmitted to a control unit. The control unit determines a characteristic weight value for a current loading of the suspension device when the blocking command is set and stores it as a pertinent value in a memory unit. The control unit determines a value for the weight when the blocking command is reset in order to cancel a blocking of the suspension device according to the result of a comparison with the value stored in the memory unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Christian von Holst, Tobias Hegler, Mathias Klittich, Michael Kremb, Norman Rössel, Andreas Wehle, Günther Wolf
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Patent number: 9868438Abstract: An arrangement for damping a possible pitching oscillation of a working vehicle supported on the ground by elastic elements is equipped with means to detect an expected and/or existing pitching oscillation of the working vehicle, and a control device, which is connected to the means and to an actuator to influence the propulsion rate of the working vehicle and which can be operated to control the actuator so as to damp the pitching oscillation.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Benedikt Jung, Guenther Wolf, Philipp Muench
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Patent number: 9751372Abstract: A system for determining an axle load for an agricultural tractor. The system includes an axle or wheel suspension device arranged on a front axle of the agricultural tractor and has a hydraulic spring strut having a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic piston dividing the hydraulic cylinder into an annular space and a piston space. A first pressure sensor detects a first working pressure, which is present in the annular space. A second pressure sensor detects a second working pressure, which is present in the piston space. A control device calculates a front axle load variable which represents an axle load acting on a front axle on the basis of a pressure force difference derived from the first and second working pressures.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Sebastian Traut, Guenther Wolf, Michael Meid
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Publication number: 20170113503Abstract: A vehicle includes a support structure and a suspension for an oscillatingly supported, rigid axle body. The suspension has a suspension device which is located between the axle body and the support structure and acts in a height direction of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a plurality of coupling sites and a transverse link extending in a transverse direction of the vehicle. The transverse link is coupled to the support structure via a first link area and via a second link area and a pendulum support to the axle body. The transverse link includes a third link area which, with reference to the pendulum support in the transverse direction of the vehicle, is located opposite the first link area and is flexibly connected with a coupling site of the suspension device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Deere & CompanyInventors: GUENTHER WOLF, CHRISTIAN VON HOLST, MICHAEL KREMB, TOBIAS HEGLER, NORMAN ROESSEL
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Publication number: 20170050487Abstract: A control device of a vehicle suspension has a suspension device mounted between a supporting vehicle structure and a vehicle part that is movably mounted. The control device includes a blocking device for blocking a compression or rebound motion occurring at the suspension device in correspondence with a blocking command transmitted to a control unit. The control unit determines a characteristic weight value for a current loading of the suspension device when the blocking command is set and stores it as a pertinent value in a memory unit. The control unit determines a value for the weight when the blocking command is reset in order to cancel a blocking of the suspension device according to the result of a comparison with the value stored in the memory unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: February 23, 2017Inventors: Christian von Holst, Tobias Hegler, Mathias Klittich, Michael Kremb, Norman Rössel, Andreas Wehle, Günther Wolf
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Publication number: 20160297275Abstract: A system for determining an axle load for an agricultural tractor. The system includes an axle or wheel suspension device arranged on a front axle of the agricultural tractor and has a hydraulic spring strut having a hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic piston dividing the hydraulic cylinder into an annular space and a piston space. A first pressure sensor detects a first working pressure, which is present in the annular space. A second pressure sensor detects a second working pressure, which is present in the piston space. A control device calculates a front axle load variable which represents an axle load acting on a front axle on the basis of a pressure force difference derived from the first and second working pressures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Inventors: SEBASTIAN TRAUT, GUENTHER WOLF, MICHAEL MEID
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Publication number: 20160280221Abstract: An arrangement for damping a possible pitching oscillation of a working vehicle supported on the ground by elastic elements is equipped with means to detect an expected and/or existing pitching oscillation of the working vehicle, and a control device, which is connected to the means and to an actuator to influence the propulsion rate of the working vehicle and which can be operated to control the actuator so as to damp the pitching oscillation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: BENEDIKT JUNG, GUENTHER WOLF, PHILIPP MUENCH
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Patent number: 8038381Abstract: An arrangement is provided for loading vehicle bodies in which assembled vehicle bodies are continuously made available from a production process for loading and are prepared for the loading. Several different stations of the loading arrangement are mutually coordinated and monitored by a control unit. A drive operated fork lift is utilized to handle empty cargo carriers and to stack a pair of vehicle body loaded cargo carriers to form a loading unit which is subsequently transferred to a transport train freight car.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, ILS Industrie Logistic Swiss AGInventors: Lothar Boettcher, Christoph Beerhalter, Guenther Wittenmayer, Guenther Wolf, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckhard Uebach
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Publication number: 20090248197Abstract: An arrangement is provided for loading vehicle bodies in which assembled vehicle bodies are continuously made available from a production process for loading and are prepared for the loading. Several different stations of the loading arrangement are mutually coordinated and monitored by a control unit. A drive operated fork lift is utilized to handle empty cargo carriers and to stack a pair of vehicle body loaded cargo carriers to form a loading unit which is subsequently transferred to a transport train freight car.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicants: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, ILS INDUSTRIE LOGISTIC SWISS AGInventors: Lothar Boettcher, Christoph Beerhalter, Guenther Wittenmayer, Guenther Wolf, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckhard Uebach
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Patent number: 7547183Abstract: An arrangement is provided for loading vehicle bodies in which assembled vehicle bodies are continuously made available from a production process for loading and are prepared for the loading. Several different stations of the loading arrangement are mutually coordinated and monitored by a control unit. A drive operated fork lift is utilized to handle empty cargo carriers and to stack a pair of vehicle body loaded cargo carriers to form a loading unit which is subsequently transferred to a transport train freight car.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, ILS Industrie Logistic Swiss AGInventors: Lothar Boettcher, Christoph Beerhalter, Guenther Wittenmayer, Guenther Wolf, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckhard Uebach
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Patent number: 7153078Abstract: Through a loading and unloading station for load carriers of vehicle bodies, vehicles or the like, it is possible to unload vehicle bodies from a railway car in a continuous cycle and supply them to a production facility, wherein in one cycle simultaneously the load carriers receiving the vehicle bodies are returned to an empty railway car.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2003Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, UTC Uebach Technologie Consulting GmbHInventors: Christoph Beerhalter, Lothar Boettcher, Guenther Wolf, Guenther Wittenmayer, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckard Uebach, Ernst Hopf, Walter Kramer
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Publication number: 20050102813Abstract: An arrangement is provided for loading vehicle bodies in which assembled vehicle bodies are continuously made available from a production process for loading and are prepared for the loading. Several different stations of the loading arrangement are mutually coordinated and monitored by a control unit. A drive operated fork lift is utilized to handle empty cargo carriers and to stack a pair of vehicle body loaded cargo carriers to form a loading unit which is subsequently transferred to a transport train freight car.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2004Publication date: May 19, 2005Applicants: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, UTC Uebach Technologie Consulting GmbHInventors: Lothar Boettcher, Christoph Beerhalter, Guenther Wittenmayer, Guenther Wolf, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckhard Uebach
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Publication number: 20040052621Abstract: Through a loading and unloading station for load carriers of vehicle bodies, vehicles or the like, it is possible to unload vehicle bodies from a railway car in a continuous cycle and supply them to a production facility, wherein in one cycle simultaneously the load carriers receiving the vehicle bodies are returned to an empty railway car.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Christoph Beerhalter, Lothar Boettcher, Guenther Wolf, Guenther Wittenmayer, Claus-Peter Krause, Eckard Uebach, Ernst Hopf, Walter Kramer
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Patent number: 5787583Abstract: An apparatus and a method are proposed for adjusting a valve lift, particularly a valve needle lift of an injection valve of an internal combustion engine, wherein a valve seat, which is preset in a housing of the valve (20), is axially displaceable in the housing by means of plastic deformation. The apparatus is provided with an adjustment device (50) which generates a feeding motion for a pressing tool (53, 55) in the direction of the plastic deformation and with a measuring device (30) which determines the valve lift that is changeable by way of the plastic deformation of the valve seat and compares the valve lift with a preset desired value, with the adjustment device (50) being controllable by way of the desired value/actual value comparison. The pressing tool (53, 55) is fed by means of a first and, if necessary, by means of at least one further feeding process.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Guenther Wolf, Meinrad Feder, Uwe Dowedeit, Volker Hartmann, Karl-Heinz Pfrommer, Markus Roerig, Iris Wislicenus
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Patent number: 5657934Abstract: Apparatus for granulating strand materials including a stationary knife, a rotatable knife, and a drawing-in device. Part of the housing is pivotable to enable the drawing-in device to be easily removed for maintenance. An oblong hole on the housing is used to locate the drawing-in device.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Rieter Automatik GmbHInventors: Walter Pirrung, Berthold Glaab, Laurenz Hohm, Helmuth Meidhof, Guenther Wolf